Editing David Adams Richards (section)

==Awards==
Richards has received numerous awards including two [[Gemini Awards]] for scriptwriting for ''Small Gifts'' and ''[[For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down]]'', the [[Alden Nowlan Award]] for Excellence in the Arts, and the [[Canadian Authors Association]] Award for his novel ''Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace''. Richards is one of only three writers to have won in both the fiction and non-fiction categories of the [[Governor General's Award]]. He won the [[1988 Governor General's Awards|1988 fiction award]] for ''Nights Below Station Street'' and the [[1998 Governor General's Awards|1998 non-fiction award]] for ''Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi''. He was also a co-winner of the 2000 [[Giller Prize]] for ''[[Mercy Among the Children]]''. The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick administers an annual David Adams Richards Prize for Fiction.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.umce.ca/wfnb/wnners.htm | title=24 Years of WFNB Literary Competition Winners! | publisher=Writers' Federation of New Brunswick | access-date=10 March 2010}}</ref>

In 2009, he was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] "for his contributions to the Canadian literary scene as an essayist, screenwriter and writer of fiction and non-fiction".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469|title=Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada|work=Office of the Secretary to the Governor General|access-date=10 March 2010|date=30 December 2009}}</ref>

In 2011, Richards received the [[Matt Cohen Prize]].<ref>"New Brunswick author wins big prize". ''[[Times & Transcript]]'', 3 November 2011.</ref>